College Essays
Just taking one day off from school can affect your entire life. Even though you may feel too tired to go, or you don’t feel like taking a test, putting school off gets you nowhere. According to a recent survey, approximately 63,000 kids skip school each day. Why are so many choosing not to go? […]
We’re doomed. Yep. Totally, completely, utterly doomed. “We” being our generation. Generation Y, the Entitled Generation, Generation Whatever, whichever name you want to give us, we are gosh-darn mother-truckin’ doomed. Why? The American education system. And what’s wrong with American education these days? The self-esteem movement. The majority of students who do poorly in school […]
An issue of great concern for me is the educational act “No Child Left Behind.” This law may have been well-intentioned in the beginning, but it has done more harm than good for many public schools. In my school district, second-graders are no longer taught cursive writing. Fifth-graders devote reading class to worksheets designed to […]
Have you ever been put into a position where you didn’t understand a language? Ever felt desperate to know what’s going on? Well new comers to the United States feel the same way they come to The United States to get a better education just to find out that they don’t speak the same language. […]
Student life and specifically, the bachelor phase is surely the most crucial phase of everybody’s life.It’s that time of your life when you’re only just starting to learn the ropes of adulting. It’s actually the phase when you feel as if you’ve been given freedom of choice but given the restrictions in a desi society […]
Learning a language can be a fun experience. But choosing what language you want to take can be a hard to decision, especially when you go to a school that has German, Spanish, Japanese, French, and Chinese. For the first time, on October 18, 2012, our school held an international day. International day was a […]
The greatest part of living your life as a musician is giving back to those with hope and the greatest part of being an artist is representing yourself as a person. I think it`s great and wonderful to watch school`s teach art and music. My opinion, Sometimes we are so caught up in paying a […]
Many people rely on luck to climb the ladder of success. But does luck alone really help us to reach out goal without any effort or determination? No. it doesn’t. However, there are some people who are quite ‘lucky’ to be successful without much effort. Yet, people can’t always count only on luck to determine […]
Being in high school, I fully understand the pressures and stress placed onto teenagers in today’s world. I also realize that many of these heavy work loads and environments are meant to push today’s youth closer to success and prepare them for the real world, which they will soon be unforgivingly thrust into. However, the […]
Every morning, millions of children wake up, have breakfast, and prepare for school. They walk into school, possibly excited, but more likely begrudgingly dragging themselves out of bed five minutes before the first bell. They go to their respective homerooms or first period classes, and just when they collapse into their seats and start to […]
I am both honored and flattered to have been asked to speak for this wonderful occasion. I congratulate each of you and your parents. Your achievements in the areas of Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character are being honored here today by your induction into this prestigious society. An honor such as this is a great […]
A debate that has been going back and forth is building up, and that is about at what extent should religion be taught about in school, does it need to be taught more, or should it not even be talked about at all? Some that teachers are promoting religions to children, trying to convert them […]
Recently, I finally realized what I want to do when I grow up. I’ve always known I’ve wanted to do something to better the lives of others, but for years, I couldn’t find quite the right thing. Then, a couple weeks ago, I was helping a girl study for math, she just couldn’t grasp it. […]
Being in high school gives students much more responsibility and freedom than being in grade school. But one thing I really miss about being in elementary school is the designated snack time that each classroom is given. I get hungry very fast and always feel the need to snack on something. When I find myself […]
As a student, how often have you caught yourself drifting from what’s going on in class, feeling your eyelids droop? You’re in the classroom in body, but your mind is somewhere else entirely. After what seems like hours of trying to keep your eyes open, the class finally ends, and you leave with no recollection […]
As an American citizen in the land of the free, the land of the great, and the land of opportunity I must get an education to get a secure job. But I must also learn. And those two things – education and learning – are so different that they’re the night and day of this […]
Is technology good or bad? What kind of influence does it have on our society? What is it causing us to do in our lives? What is the affect on us with all this technology? All these questions are concerning many Americans today, to many people text, listen to their iPods, and are on the […]
I had fully planned on attending high school. Honest. I had already missed middle school, so there was no way I was missing out on “the best years of my life.” But, when the time came to enroll or continue home-schooling, I picked the latter. Why? All I had dreamed about was having a huge […]
This article is about what you basically want to be when you grow up, this came to mind because a lot of teens are in Middle School or in college and when you hit that stage you have a lot to think about. The year is almost over and it may be your time to […]
Why are there so many obese kids and adults in America? Is it because of the fast food restaurants? Is it because of technology? Is it because of the schools? Actually, it’s all the above. But this article focuses on the schools contribution to obesity. The World Health Organization has recently released the results of […]
Mrs. Patterson I wrote my Educator of the Year nomination about my sixth grade teacher Mrs. Patterson. She had been a teacher for many years. The next year she was made principal. Sadly due to a shortage of money by the dioceses the school was shut down. I had known Mrs. Patterson since I was […]
In conclusion, the beginning of this essay should have utterly confused you by having the author (me!) attempting to start this essay with the conclusion, which in itself is a grave error as the first paragraph will always be called ‘the beginning’ even if it starts with “in conclusion” and should be taken as a […]
Dear Teachers and Administrators of New Jersey, Studies have been conducted, surveys have been taken, documentaries have been developed, and it’s been discussed in the news for years; and still everyone agrees that nothing is being done to change the fact that students are being assigned entirely too much homework and not enough time to […]
Reading has a very important impact on how our world works. It is a very common form of how we communicate Without reading we would not be able to communicate. We could not even speak if reading wasn’t developed. Reading is a very important skill to have and makes a big impact on how our […]
This year, my high school made changes to the Homecoming assembly. For starters, South campus and North campus had separate assemblies at different times of the day. Also, the assemblies were not outside on the football field, but instead, in the East gym at North campus and the upper gym at South. In addition to […]
What does being successful in education truly mean? It’s not just a letter on a piece of paper; a solid education means options. It means we have a choice of what to do when we graduate high school. Today, though, the sad truth is that over 30% of Americans will not have options, they will […]
Schools across the country are adapting to the new idea of the “One to One” program, which “refers to academic institutions, such as schools or colleges, issuing each enrolled student an electronic device in order to access the Internet, digital course materials and digital textbooks” (Wikipedia). I have possesseda school issued laptop since halfway through […]
“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and this thing must be attained.” These inspirational words from Marie Curie, the famous chemist who studied radioactivity and is known as the “most inspirational woman in science,” are motivation for girls to follow their dreams.However, […]
Imagine going to a school that had to be shut down because of fumes and backed-up toilets that was caused by a sewage problem that flowed into the kitchen, students’ bathroom and through the basement. What if you lived in fear because you were afraid that you were going to be taken from your home? […]
Parents are forcing their children into single gender schooling. Single gender schools can in fact lead to gender stereotyping, forcing children being people who they are not meant to be, and single gender schooling can in fact cause males and females to fear each other. Some parents and others may argue that single gender schooling […]
